Post by Jimmy Halloway on Dec 14, 2016 16:17:40 GMT
James Malcolm Halloway
FACE CLAIM: Cameron Boyce
♦ THE BASICS ♦
AGE: Fifteen
GENDER: Male
ORIENTATION: non-sexual
POSITION: student♦ THE ABILITY ♦
POWER: Visual Memory
Jimmy is able to remember every little detail of anything he sees, even what happens in the background that no one else may notice. Everything seen is then stored in his mind and stays there, thus taking a lot of place. Only what he sees can be stored that way, things he hears or feels will not. In fact, he has a lot less to almost no memory for those. It is a lot as though his brain takes photographs of everything. If he focuses on one thing, for example, a person, he would then be able to see that same person into every other 'photograph' his brain took, even when that person is far in the background, so long as Jimmy's eyes can see it. With time, if a memory is not properly stimulated (in other words, if he doesn't see it anymore for several months/years depending on how strong that memory is), it can vanish from his brain to make room for the others. It will likely remove everything else about that memory along with it. Even watching a photograph of the thing will no longer ring a bell to him.
LIMITATIONS:
- Jimmy can only remember things he sees to an extraordinary degree. What he hears will not stick so well.
- While he could remember the symbols drawn on a page, he cannot read the words, only see the alphabet used. If he was asked to recopy the page, he'd write the symbols without knowing what they mean.
- While he could remember every movement a person did, his body is not able to do the same if he doesn't have the proper training.
- Jimmy can remember things he sees but his vision is not enhanced. As such, if the detail was much too far for a normal person to distinguish it, he cannot see it either. He can only notice small details people could see normally but overlooked.
- Because his memory is shapes into 'photographs', if someone changes their appareance drastically, Jimmy may not be able to recognize them. If he saw someone as a baby, he wouldn't be able to understand the teenager before him is that same person. He could also get lost if a room gets fully redecorated. He will consider it another room altogether and cannot associate it with what it looked before.
SIDE-EFFECTS:
- Because his power requires a lot of his brain, Jimmy is mentally disabled. It has been proven there is a connection between his mental state and his power, even if he had this side-effect before the power manifested. Jimmy is about 6-8 years of age, mentally speaking.
- When drastic changes are made, Jimmy can get very confused, leaving him in a state of panic because he can no longer recognize what his memory had stored.
- Making too many efforts to remember small details can result in headaches, phasing out for a moment or even blacking out.
- In order to make some space for more memories, the things he had not seen again for a while may vanish. For example, if a shop closed and another took its place, he may one day forget about the first one, even if he spent a lot of time there. It will remove all memories he had of the place.♦ THE FREEFORM ♦About His Mutant History
In the Bond family (Jimmy’s mother side), people tend to be ‘special’. Their mutant abilities are all mental ones. Once in a while, you get one who has exceptional power. And once in a while, you get one who’s a defect. Like Uncle Randall (that Jimmy never met) who could remember anything once he learned it once, with the slight problem that he ended up having to forget things once his brain got too full. Sounded like what anyone else would go through, except everyone else didn’t risk forgetting how to tie their shoes or the name of their spouse. Jimmy is one of those defects. His memory is beyond compare when it comes to things he saw. He can remember even tiny details. Sadly, it asks so much out of his brain that it can do little else. Jimmy was born mentally disabled. The side-effect showed before the power because the mutant gene was active within Jimmy, the power only showed later, as it normally does. His manifested when he was thirteen.About His Mental Disability
It is not a form of autism nor a Down Syndrome. It is a fact that it is an effect of his power, but one can use other research on mental disability to understand his case. Jimmy has an IQ of 68, making him about seven years of age, mentally speaking. He can count on his fingers and knows his numeral figures. Past ten, he knows some but is more likely to simply say the digits used to write the number. He knows the letter of the alphabet but has difficulty spelling them out in order. He can read basic words and is using cards to practice. He tends to write words as you speak them, making many grammatical errors. Jimmy has no imagination. He can create a story on something he doesn’t know or draw something he never saw. He is very gullible and easily influenced. Unable to listen to basic instincts telling you not to trust someone, he will believe everything that is said to him and can do whatever a person asks of him, so long as it doesn’t go against the rules he learned. If someone finds a way to say it does not bend those rules, he can be influenced to do as they ask. Because he is naive, he can also believe TV shows and movies are real and can be very confused when it goes against reality. He cannot associate ideas together. If he does something as soon as being asked, he can do it properly, but he tends to forget things told to him. Jimmy is able to understand basic feelings such as joy, anger and sadness. He can feel them too. He can also feel more complex emotions but does not understand them and is usually confused when it happens. He can understand someone is happy when they smile, sad when they cry and angry when they yell but otherwise cannot. He also doesn’t know how to react to people’s emotions. He will try to defuse a situation when two people are arguing and/or fighting but if that doesn’t work, he will sit in a corner and moan until it is over. He will smile and laugh with a happy person but not know what to do when someone cries. He can sense when there is a change of behaviour in a person if it is obvious but will not understand it. He likes hugs for the warmth of them but does not understand what physical contact means to others. He tends to get into people’s personal space without noticing the person's discomfort unless asked to move away.About His Family
Jimmy’s mother is Stacey Bond, a mutant who went to Bellefonte before. His father is Oliver Halloway and as far as the Academy knows, he has no mutant ability. In his youth, Jimmy’s mother tried really hard for her son to be normal, something his father often told her to stop doing, as he obviously was not normal and they should only accept that for everyone to be happy. The couple had a daughter, Rachel, who is five years younger than James. Until they could tell for sure she was of normal intelligence, Stacey did what she could for James, fighting tooth and nail, even ruined herself with charlatans, trying to make him smart. Once she knew her daughter was normal, her interest for her son greatly diminished and the frustration showed more and more. Jimmy got punished and spanked more than once for his ‘bad behaviour’. Stacey never thought he’d be a mutant too until the Academy’s officials arrived to take him. By that time, she already couldn’t take him and had threatened more than once to place him in an institution so that their daughter could have a normal life and not be mocked by other kids because her brother was a retard. Rachel herself didn’t like playing with her brother and took on her mother’s attitude towards him. Oliver kept by his son until he found out he was a mutant. He finally agreed his place might not be by their side but at the Academy. The parents have no intention to take their son back after his studies here, something Jimmy is unaware of.About His Relationships With Others
Jimmy has a friendly nature. Anyone talking to him is considered his friend from his point of view. He is easily intimidated by people yelling at him and is scared of physical punishments. If people can scare him, they only need to talk softly to him for Jimmy to consider them friends. He believes people are hard on him or hit him because he is stupid and so doesn’t hold any grudge against them and only gets scared of them and tries to avoid them until he can prove he got smarter. Upon arriving at Bellefonte, the staff offered him a rat as a pet that he took care of. Sadly, it died a few weeks later due to an excess of pretzels, Jimmy feeding Bruce (the rat) his snacks whenever he was in his room studying. Jimmy doesn’t understand love. He can like someone but doesn’t understand love. He also has no reaction to nudity and has no sexual impulses.About His Dreams
Jimmy wants to be intelligent above all else. Not a genius, just smart. When asked about his motivation, Jimmy says he wants to be smart so his mother would be proud of him and touch his hair and say he is a good boy. He wants to make his parents happy. He doesn’t understand the reasons behind this motivation but it has to do with the boy’s desire to make people happy in general and his mother in particular. He has no goals for the future. When asked, he freezes, not understanding the question. He seems to believe he will stay at the Academy until he becomes smart. Since he cannot be in a regular class, finding him a job here or a tutor to take care of him outside might be best for him.About His Fears
Jimmy fears to get people angry, especially his mother. He doesn’t seem to think he can never get smart. Since he could barely read before he came here, he senses he already got better and could only get smarter, not understanding he is about at the peak of what his IQ can allow him to get. Jimmy gets very confused when things change around him and it upsets him, sometimes even leaving him panicking. He is afraid when he knows he knows something but cannot remember it but only when others are expecting him to show he knows it. It’s the expectation that scares him the most, as he knows he disappoints more than impresses.About His Likes and Dislikes
Jimmy likes to draw, he is a curious boy. He also has a lot of determination. He can ask a lot of questions if allowed to. He likes pretzels and chips and chocolate. He doesn’t like bitter or sour food and will spit it back in his plate. He likes sweet drinks but does not enjoy coffee. Loud music, especially the aggressive one, upsets him. Jimmy is not very good at sports, he has an awkward way of running but he wants to be with the other boys and so tries to play sports even when he doesn’t understand the rules of the game. He doesn’t like when people are fighting and will try to calm things by interfering. He loves to laugh with people. He just doesn’t get they often laugh at him and not with him.♦ THE PLAYER ♦
USERNAME: Bobby
AGE GROUP: old enough
EXPERIENCE: about half of my life
WHERE DID YOU FIND US? my other characters here
